Monday, November 12, 2007

B: When I went to bed, and I thought to myself ‘oh, you can like…(drowned out by passing car)

C: Alright, yeah, I hadn’t even remembered it yet… I was just about to.

small crash

B: I think I (unintelligible)

A: Kinda cool out here.

C: Dude… come and go. Air comin’ off the water,

A: Yeah, right? I’m going on Friday to a ball game.

C: Whose playing?

A: Um… shit.

C: This is the last game in the series .

A: Um….. I think Colorado.

B: Colorado!

A: (muttering) Fuckin’ Colorado.

C: Dude, the Houston Astro’s uniforms they were awful, they were… (laughter)… terrible!

B: (laughing)

C: I’m just like y’all bring back the orange rainbow, c’mon.

B: What are you talking about ‘orange rainbow’?

A: 70’s logo.

C: 70’s orange rainbow.

B: Ohhhhh…

C: It was like, it was beautiful. It was like…there were all these different like orange stripes. They matched the Astrodome, which doesn’t matter anymore ‘cause they don’t play in the Astrodome anymore. But, you know it wasn’t like attractive but at least it was distinctive.

B: My parents have this big, blue wool blanket that has the L.A. Rams logo on it, which doesn’t even exist anymore. There’s no such thing as the L.A. Rams.

A: The first car I ever drove was my dad’s Mazda B1000 and it had a sticker on it that said “My favorite team is the Bruins or whoever’s playing USC” ‘cause my dad is a UCLA alumni.

cars on street

C: Dude, I remember, okay, back in the day…

A: Which was uh, uh a Tuesday, in case you didn’t know, back in the day was a Tuesday.

editors note: yes, yes this joke was stolen from dane cook. he was funny once. I know, I was surprised too.

C: This was waaay back in the day, when the Astros and the Oilers played in the Astrodome, like they had their own separate stadiums.

B: Wasn’t that where they relocated Hurricane Katrina survivors?

C: It’s the eight wonder of the world.

C: No, that was the Superdome in uh…

A: Louisiana, right?

C: New Orleans, yeah.

A: Yeah.

B: Well, I thought they moved them.

C: That’s where the Saints played.

A: They initially had everybody evacuate to the Superdome in Louisiana.

C: There were also then people relocated to the Astrodome.

B: Yes, that’s what I thought, I thought that the Astrodome was one of the relocation places.

A: They did like a Newsweek thing on how many people were still in FEMA trailers, just like not able to like…

A: Oh yeah, I know ‘cause they had to basically pay them a check and he everything he got, you know, some sort of compensation for it or whatever. But yeah, I remember it was like the anniversary and name was like “Be nice to -.” It was on a Thursday or something like the day before or the day after and he was like really upset and I was like “That’s something that really… sticks with you.”

C: Oh yeah.

B: Oh yeah.

A: It’s also like … what a national embarrassment man, what better proof…

C: Noooo shit!

A: That we can’t take care of our own people?

C: That’s right.

B: And there they were, still deploying troops halfway across the world and like…

C: Dude, Houston absorbed …

A: A lot of folk.

C: Houston absorbed half a million people.

B: Holy shit!

A: Was there an obvious drain on like pubic services?

C: Oh well the murder rate went up thirty percent in one year.

A: Right.

B: Woo! In Houston or…?

C: (drags off cigarette) In Houston.

B: No good.

C: (curtly) Yeah, four hundred murders a year is not so good.

A: That’s more than one murder a day, yeah…(sigh)… that’s us moving ourselves closer to extinction.

B: baa-ram, bar-rram, bam!

C: So, we’ll see.

A: We’ll see, we’ll see how low these limbo boats can sink beneath these choppy seas…

C: We’ll see how much Houston will resemble my memory of it, probably very little.

B: We’ll see how long we can run an arms race with half the nation…

B & A (in unison): Still silently slipping into the reach of poverty, we’ll see.